Gasteruption Latreille, 1776
(pennant wasps)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Gasteruption assectator Lesser Pennant Wasp					Species		10 images	1 ident. refs
Gasteruption jaculator Greater Pennant Wasp					Species		19 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Gasteruption (pennant wasps)
Family	GASTERUPTIIDAE (pennant wasps)
Superfamily	EVANIOIDEA (ensign and pennant parasitoid wasps)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Gasteruption is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Johansson, N. & van Achterberg, C.	2016	Revision of the Palaearctic Gasteruption assectator aggregate, with special reference to Sweden (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae)	ZooKeys Vol 615: 73-94.

Gasteruption (pennant wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

GASTERUPTIIDAE
(pennant wasps)

EVANIOIDEA
(ensign and pennant parasitoid wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Gasteruption (pennant wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Gasteruption (pennant wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Gasteruption is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)